Box 79
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Contains 5 Results:
Visiting Committee - Humanities, 1953-1959
unspecified — Box: 79, Folder: 1505-1507
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
Barker served as trustee for MIT, Northwestern, Robert College, and the Newberry Library during his later years. Perhaps his most important trusteeship was on the MIT Corporation. Education, and especially humanities and linguistics were of personal importance to him and he was quite active on committees steering these topics at MIT. In 1964 while serving on the Visiting Committee on Modern Languages and Linguistics Barker became involved in a dispute with Noam Chomsky. Chomsky had been a...
Dates:
1953-1959
Visiting Committee - Libraries, 1947-1974
unspecified — Box: 79, Folder: 1508-1511
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
Barker served as trustee for MIT, Northwestern, Robert College, and the Newberry Library during his later years. Perhaps his most important trusteeship was on the MIT Corporation. Education, and especially humanities and linguistics were of personal importance to him and he was quite active on committees steering these topics at MIT. In 1964 while serving on the Visiting Committee on Modern Languages and Linguistics Barker became involved in a dispute with Noam Chomsky. Chomsky had been a...
Dates:
1947-1974
Visiting Committee - Mathematics, 1949-1951
unspecified — Box: 79, Folder: 1512
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
Barker served as trustee for MIT, Northwestern, Robert College, and the Newberry Library during his later years. Perhaps his most important trusteeship was on the MIT Corporation. Education, and especially humanities and linguistics were of personal importance to him and he was quite active on committees steering these topics at MIT. In 1964 while serving on the Visiting Committee on Modern Languages and Linguistics Barker became involved in a dispute with Noam Chomsky. Chomsky had been a...
Dates:
1949-1951
Visiting Committee - Memorandum by JMB on, 1960
unspecified — Box: 79, Folder: 1513
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
Barker served as trustee for MIT, Northwestern, Robert College, and the Newberry Library during his later years. Perhaps his most important trusteeship was on the MIT Corporation. Education, and especially humanities and linguistics were of personal importance to him and he was quite active on committees steering these topics at MIT. In 1964 while serving on the Visiting Committee on Modern Languages and Linguistics Barker became involved in a dispute with Noam Chomsky. Chomsky had been a...
Dates:
1960
Visiting Committee - Modern Languages and Linguistics, 1936-1937
unspecified — Box: 79, Folder: 1514
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
Barker served as trustee for MIT, Northwestern, Robert College, and the Newberry Library during his later years. Perhaps his most important trusteeship was on the MIT Corporation. Education, and especially humanities and linguistics were of personal importance to him and he was quite active on committees steering these topics at MIT. In 1964 while serving on the Visiting Committee on Modern Languages and Linguistics Barker became involved in a dispute with Noam Chomsky. Chomsky had been a...
Dates:
1936-1937